Storify and Journalism: An Exploration (via Anna’s Cubby Hole: Ramblings of a Cub Reporter)

Interesting, have heard about this but not explored it yet. Thanks for the info!

It's a little embarrassing for a media/journalism junkie to admit, but I just discovered Storify this morning. I'm hoping to use it for future blog posts, but my first story will be an investigation of Storify's impact on media and journalistic potential. From what I can tell so far, Storify is an interactive tool for people to easily create stories using tweets, Facebook statuses and links. From their FAQ: Storify is a way to tell stories using … Read More

via Anna's Cubby Hole: Ramblings of a Cub Reporter

Google Analytic Averages (via Byte of the Week)

Great to get more familiar with this data, thanks!

I recently received an email from Google that compiles average traffic stats for web sites that opted to share their stats in the aggregate. It’s interesting to look at them – because it’s nice to know where most sites get their traffic or how much time most people spend on the average web site. So I wanted to share some of the info with you – except that I wanted to add a caution about thinking of this info as average. It’s the average from web … Read More

via Byte of the Week

Google’s Bing moving up..

http://world-shaker.tumblr.com/post/4022024770/microsoft-bing-nips-at-google-with-13-6-search-share

Great post from the Tumblr-verse about Bing encroaching upon Google – gasp!

Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp (via TechCrunch)

Great, looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with!

Google's blogging service Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total) to date, writes product manager Chang Kim on the Blogger Buzz blog. Those blog posts have been read by 400 million readers across the globe, Kim adds. And according to the video below, 75 percent of traffic comes from outside the United States (the service is available in 50 languages). Now the product is getting an overha … Read More

via TechCrunch

Google Search popularity drooped?!?!!

Google.. loosing search activity levels from last year?? How can that be?? What is the world coming to?